Today's Word

 

Have you been singing today? We all sometimes hum or even sing out loud , sometimes in accompaniment to a song we hear and know on the radio. I don’t know about you, but it is hard to sing if I am troubled. The pressures of life seem to render our vocal chords incapable of making any other noise but complaints. It is much easier to sing when life is easy and there is joy in our hearts, not heaviness.

But when that heaviness and troubles of ordinary life come upon us, there is always one ear that is open and Jesus said, “I am come that your joy might be full”. God’s ear is never deaf, and we need to literally cast all our care on Him. Most of the time the casting that we do has an invisible elastic band attached and we still continue to carry the burden. But that is another lesson we need to learn and above all, practise.

But even if we keep pulling those burdens back, there is still another cure for heaviness of heart and that is to think about what God has done for us in the past, starting with our salvation.

Isaiah 12 v 5 says, “Sing unto the Lord , for He has done excellent things”. Unlike our works, nothing that God does is less than perfect and the older we get, we can look back and see His wonderful hand at work, guiding and helping and those thoughts should make us capable of singing again.

Article written by Brian Preston, Elder @SFGH Church